Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management (Guadalajara)

Student profile

Type of Degree

Student choosing to take a course in Business Administration and Management must be interested in economics and aspects related to the workings and management of business. No special knowledge is required, except for the knowledge provided by the standards leading to admission to the course. However, an interest in learning and social and political issues is necessary.

This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.

WORLD HERITAGE

This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements

Some minimal skills of logical and numeric reasoning, abstraction, teamwork, communication, effort and concentration, and analysis and synthesis are advisable. These will all be developed during the course.

Career opportunities The Bachelor’s Ddegree in Business Administration and Management provides students with professional skills that are in great demand in the labour market, which facilitates employment in the international labour market.

Graduates are able to work at any level of management and administration in any type of business or organisation, or to embark on their own business. There are many highly varied areas for professional development in business: accounting and auditing, finances, business organisation and strategy, logistics, human resources, marketing and sales research. They can also work as business consultants or advisors, or as teachers.

The degree also enables access to Spanish State and Autonomous Regional General Management and Specialist bodies, such as the Treasury Department’s Internal Revenue Service, the General State Auditors, and Social Security Specialist bodies. Graduates can also work in other official bodies such as the Bank of Spain, or the Insurance and Securities Office.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES Edificio Multidepartamental

C/ Cifuentes, 28 19003 Guadalajara www.uah.es/empresariales

Access to Higher Degree programmes All graduates can continue their training by taking an Official Postgraduate course. The University of Alcalá has an extensive range of Master’s degrees and Doctorate courses that enable students to specialise in the professional areas that are most suitable for their profile. These Official Master’s degrees include those in Management and Change´s Management, Tourism Business Management, Financial Products and Markets, Applied Economic Analysis, etc.

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Bachelor’s Degree in:

Business Administration and Management (Guadalajara)

In addition to a Degree qualification, students may obtain a “Special Mention” for one of the specialisations by successfully completing at least 30 credits from among the optional subjects pertaining to the specialisation. The exception is the specialisation in Economics, where students must take at least 24 credits from the obligatory subjects taught on the Degree in Economics programme.

Overall credit distribution SUBJECT TYPE

ECTS

Basic Training (B)

60

Obligatory (Ob)

93

Optional (Opt)

75

Bachelor's Degree Final Project (Ob)

12

TOTAL CREDITS

240

STUDY PLAN

COURSE ORGANISATION AND CONTENTS

FIRST YEAR First semester

Type

ECTS

Type

ECTS

Business Administration

B

9

Spanish and World Economy

B

6

Business Mathematics I

B

6

Business Mathematics II

B

6

Business Law

B

6

Economic Theory

B

9

Opt

6

Business Statistics I

B

6

Opt

6

Total ECTS

33

Type

ECTS

Cross-Disciplinary Skills I

Second semester

Cross-Disciplinary Skills II Total ECTS

27

The Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management is part of the Social and Legal Sciences knowledge area. Its study plan, with face-to-face teaching, is scheduled to last for four years, which are organised as follows: w

SECOND YEAR First semester

Type

ECTS

Business Statistics II

B

6

Second semester Marketing I: Basics

Ob

6

Introduction to Financial Accounting

B

6

Financial Accounting (Advanced)

Ob

6

Analysis of Financial Operations (both semesters)

Ob

6

Analysis of Financial Operations (both semesters)

Ob

6

Organisation and Human Resources

Ob

6

Business Operations and Processes

Ob

6

6

Optional 1

Commercial Law

Ob Total ECTS

30

Opt

6

Total ECTS

30

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THIRD YEAR First semester

Type

ECTS

Cost Accounting

Ob

7.5

Type

ECTS

Financial Statements

Financial Management I

Ob

Marketing: Strategies Optional 2

Ob

7.5

6

Financial Management II

Ob

6

Ob

9

Business Tax System

Ob

6

Opt

6

Optional 3

Opt

6

External Practical Training or Optional Subjects

Opt

6

Total ECTS

31,5

Total ECTS

Second semester

28,5 FOURTH YEAR

First semester

Type

ECTS

Type

ECTS

Optional 4

Opt

6

Second semester Strategic Management

Ob

9

Optional 5

Opt

6

External Practical Training

Opt

9

Optional 6

Opt

6

Bachelor's Degree Final Project

Ob

12

Optional 7

Opt

6

Optional 8

Opt

Total ECTS

30

6

Total ECTS

30

TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240 B: Basic Training; Ob: Obligatory; Opt: Optional

Specialisations offered: Business Management w Economics w Marketing w Operations and Logistics w Human Resources w

Students who wish to study part-time may take the same programme spread over eight years.

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BASIC TRAINING SUBJECTS. These subjects are Economics, Business Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Law. They are taught in the first and second year, enabling students to reach the adequate level to understand and assimilate subjects taught in other years.

OBLIGATORY SUBJECTS. These provide students with training in essential aspects of business administration such as Business Organisation, Financial Economics and Accounting, Marketing and Commercial Law. They are mainly taught in the second and third year.

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS. These complete the student’s professional profile and develop specific skills and abilities in the business field. The 60 optional subject credits are divided into 12 credits for the crossdisciplinary subjects offered by the university to all students, and 48 optional credits for the Bachelor’s degree. These optional credits may be Commercial Distribution, Financial Marketing, Budget Control, Financial Statement Analysis, Management Accoun-

ting, Financial and Actuarial Economics, Financial and Insurance Products, Banking and Insurance Administration and Management, Actuarial Valuation and Techniques, Business Management Information and Control Systems, Business Plan, and Business Environment, among others. w EXTERNAL PRACTICAL TRAINING. External Practical Training provides the student’s first contact with the business environment from the employment perspective, thereby facilitating the student’s integration in the labour market. The credits obtained are also optional. w BACHELOR’S DEGREE FINAL PROJECT on a subject chosen by the student and supervised by a lecturer.

Writing and defence of the project will allow students to obtain the Degree in Business Administration and Management.

As a result, the first three years of the Bachelor’s degree course contain the core subjects that all students have to study, and which provide students with the theoretical, technical and instrumental foundations in Business Administration and Management.

This study plan structure facilitates students’ mobility in the third and fourth year, to universities in Spain and elsewhere, which increases the opportunities for access to the European labour market.